1 - production

1 - mirror copy

1 - reporting server

2 - test servers

2 - development servers

@6 - backup copies on SAN

Yikes!!! I hadn't really considered the number of these puppies that have been replicated around here! 13+ copies of the production db!!! Holy redundancy batman!!! Even subtracting the copies produced by the backups, 7 copies of it seems pretty heavy - especially at around 64 GB each!